Dare is a '' suco'' in

Vera Cruz administrative post Vera Cruz Administrative Post (, ), is an administrative post (formerly subdistrict) in Dili Municipality, Timor-Leste. Its seat or administrative centre An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or ...

Dili Municipality Dili Municipality (, ) is one of the 14 Municipalities of East Timor, municipalities, formerly districts, of Timor-Leste, and includes the national capital Dili. The municipality had a population of 277,279 , most of whom live in the capital ...

, Timor-Leste. It is about 30 minutes away from the centre of

Dili Dili (Portuguese language, Portuguese and Tetum language, Tetum: ''Díli'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Timor-Leste. It lies on the northern coast of the island of Timor, in a small area of flat land hemmed in by mountai ...

, the country's capital city. Beginning in 1950, it has been home to the Roman Catholic

Seminary of Our Lady of Fatima Our Lady of Fatima Minor Seminary (SENOFA; Portuguese: ''Seminário Menor de Nossa Senhora de Fátima'') is a Roman Catholic minor seminary located in Dili, Timor-Leste. Established in 1936, it is the country's oldest Roman Catholic seminary. ...

, which was the only tertiary-level educational institution in

Portuguese Timor Portuguese Timor () was a Portuguese colony on the territory of present-day East Timor from 1702 until 1975. During most of this period, Portugal shared the island of Timor with the Dutch East Indies. The first Europeans to arrive in the regio ...

. Also located in Dare is the Dare Memorial, dedicated to the East Timorese people, built by the Australian Forces that fought in Timor during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

.http://wikimapia.org/9860508/Dare-Memorial

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